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American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-007
Overview
The Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer was a Quaker women's organization founded in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to provide relief for impoverished sick children and their mothers from the crowding and oppressive heat during the summer months. The collection contains minutes, 1818-1854 (gap 1819-1821) and other records, including acting committee minutes and workbook, 1843-1851.
Dates:
1818-1862
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-008
Overview
The Association for the Care of Colored Orphans, also known as “The Shelter,” was founded in Philadelphia by Quaker women in 1822 to care for black orphans, both boys and girls, within a nurturing, home-like environment. In 1915, it relocated to Cheyney, Pa, and became a home for girls. In 1965, its name was changed to “Friends Shelter for Girls,” and its mission evolved to serve as a home for teenaged girls. In 1981 it ceased to function as a group home and was succeeded by Friends Association...
Dates:
1822-1979
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-009
Overview
The Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons was a Quaker organization organized in 1789 in Philadelphia to operate a charity school for black adults. The Association provided free adult education to African-Americans until 1904 when it was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the Institute for Colored Youth. This collection contains minutes, financial records, and some correspondence of the Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored...
Dates:
1789-1905
Nancy J. Babb Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Babb, Nancy
Abstract
Nancy Babb (1884-1948) was a member of the Society of Friends who served as a field representative for the Red Cross and then as a relief worker in Russia from 1917 to the mid 1920s. On her return to the United States in 1928 Babb lectured about her work in Russia. Babb also volunteered for a number of various women's organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Babb established the National Circulating Library of Student's Peace Posters, an organization that...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Benezet House Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-010
Overview
The Benezet House Association, Philadelphia, Pa., was formed in 1917 to assist and educate the City's poor African American and immigrant residents. It was created by the merger of the Joseph Sturge Mission School, a First Day school for African Americans founded in 1865; Anthony Benezet School, founded in 1795 as the School for Black People and their Descendants (also known as the Raspberry Street School); and Western District Colored School, founded 1848 under the care of Twelfth Street...
Dates:
1846-1945
Biddle family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates:
1793-1951
Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends (Bucks County, Pa.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-011
Overview
The Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends, a Quaker Bible distribution society, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was established in 2nd month, 1830, under the Bible Association of Friends in America. Its purpose was to supply “Friends and others with the Holy Scripture, “to encourage “the frequent and serious perusal of them”, and to promote “a more accurate knowledge of their invaluable contents”. All subscriptions collected by the Auxiliary were turned over to the parent body,...
Dates:
1830-1845
Byberry Hall Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-012
Overview
Byberry Hall Association was organized in 1854 when the citizens of Byberry township and vicinity decided to form a company for the purpose of erecting a building where residents could meet to hear lectures, hold elections, etc. This collection contains the records of the Byberry Hall Association, 1847-1981. It includes the secretary's book containing minutes (1854-1905); account books, deeds and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1847-1981
Byberry Library Company Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-013
Overview
Byberry Library Company was founded in 1794 and incorporated in 1799. Located in the Byberry section of Philadelphia, Pa., the Library was generally under Quaker management. The collection includes the minutes of the director's meetings; constitution and by-laws, financial and property records, and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1794-1922
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 48
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- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 3
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- Society of Friends -- Charities 41
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 19
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 18
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 15
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 13
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 12
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 11
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 11
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 9
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 8
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 8
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 8
- Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 7
- African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 6
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania 6
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 6
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Quakers -- Social service 6
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 6
- Social Service -- Pennsylvania 6
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 6
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 6
- Church work with older people -- Society of Friends 5
- Education -- Pennsylvania 5
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 5
- Society of Friends -- Education 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 5
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 4
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 4
- Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 4
- Quakers -- Poor -- Services for 4
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 4
- Social service -- New York (State) -- New York 4
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Societies, etc. 4
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc. 4
- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania 3
- African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania 3
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population 3
- Church work with refugees -- Society of Friends 3
- Poor -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York 3
- Quaker women -- Charities 3
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 3
- Quaker women -- Societies and clubs 3
- Quakers -- Education 3
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 3
- Sick -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 3
- Social service -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 3
- African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 2
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Byberry (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Church work with immigrants -- Pennsylvania 2
- Clothing and dress 2
- Education -- South Carolina 2
- Endowments -- Pennsylvania 2
- Fresh-air charity 2
- Immigrants -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 2
- Old age homes -- Pennsylvania 2
- Poor -- Pennsylvania 2
- Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Poor -- Services for 2
- Quaker philanthropists 2
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 2
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 2
- Quakers -- South Carolina 2
- Sewing schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Pennsylvania 2
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc. 2
- Women in charitable work -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 2
- Youth -- Services for 2
- account books 2
- African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
- African Americans -- Charities 1
- African Americans -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Virginia 1
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population 1
- African Americans -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- African Americans -- Services for -- Southern States 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Aiken (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century 1
- American periodicals 1
- Antislavery Movements -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Antislavery movements 1
- Apprentices -- Pennsylvania 1
- Asylums 1
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Quakers 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Societies, etc. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 6
- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 2
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
- Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing 2
- Friends Instruction Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Friends' Employment Society (New York, N.Y.) 2
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. New York Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Workroom Committee 2
- Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
- Swarthmore College 2
- Young Friends Aid Association (New York, N.Y.) 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Coal Relief Program 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
- Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons 1
- Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Colored Women 1
- Association of Friends for the Relief of Freedmen (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Babb, Nancy J. (Nancy Jones), 1884-1948 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Beehive School for Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Benezet House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Biddle family 1
- Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
- Biddle, Robert, 1867-1935 1
- Biddle, William C. 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Bogardus, Joseph A., 1851-1896 1
- Bowne, Amy, 1795- 1
- Brinton, Anna Cox 1
- Bryn Mawr College 1
- Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends (Bucks County, Pa.) 1
- Byberry Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Byberry Library Company 1
- Byberry Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Byberry School Association 1
- Central Employment Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Central Soup Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Cheyney Training School for Teachers 1
- Christiansburg Industrial Institute 1
- Circle of the King's Daughters (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Collins, Sarah, b. 1795 1
- Collège Cévenol 1
- Collège Cévenol. American Friends 1
- Cooper, Stanley B. 1
- Cope, Paul M. (Paul Markley), 1891-1973 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cox, John, 1860-1951 1
- Cromwell, Caroline A., b. 1833 1
- Davis, Mary E., d. 1879 1
- Dockhorn, Robert B. 1
- Earlham College 1
- Evans, Charles, 1802-1879 1
- Free-School Society of New-York 1
- Freedmen's Friend (Cambria, Va.) 1
- Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.) 1
- Friendly Acres Community Services (Secane, Pa.) 1
- Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit Post-War Service 1
- Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children (West Chester, Pa.) 1
- Friends Boarding Home of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Newtown, Pa.) 1
- Friends Boarding Home of the Burlington Quarterly Meeting 1
- Friends Freedmen's Association 1
- Friends Housing, Inc. 1
- Friends Mission No.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Neighborhood Guild 1
- Friends Relief Service 1
- Friends Service Council 1
- Friends Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Shelter for Girls 1
- Friends Village (Newtown, Pa.) 1
- Friends War Relief Service (London, England) 1
- Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freedmen 1
- Friends' Boarding Home of the Concord Quarterly Meeting 1
- Friends' Home for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
- Friends' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Friends’ Freedmen’s Association 1
- Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845 1
- Fry, Joseph Storrs, 1766-1835 1
- Fuel Saving Society of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Garvan, Theresa 1
- Grandom Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Grandom, Hartt, 1778-1840 1
- Guilford College 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hawkins, Harry A., b. 1860 1
- Hoag, May 1
- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- Hollywood Children's Summer Home of Baltimore City 1
- Holmes family 1
- Holmes, Jesse Herman, 1864-1942 1
- Holmes, Rebecca W. (Rebecca Webb), 1868-1957 1
- Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Humphreys, Richard, 1750-1832 1 ∧ less
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